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Osman: Kuwait has differences with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, wants to ensure its interests in cooperation with Iraq
Saturday, April 28 / April 2012 00:19
The leader of the Kurdistan Alliance, Mahmoud Othman, said Friday that Kuwait has differences with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and pointed out that it wants to ensure its interests through cooperation with Iraq in the economic fields.
Mahmoud Othman, said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The State of Kuwait have differences with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others and wants to ensure its interests through investment and economic cooperation with Iraq," adding that "the State of Kuwait can not live without the cooperation with Iraq fact that the geopolitical imperative for them that. "
The delegation called for a media Kuwaiti annexation of ministers and MPs on Friday (April 27, 2012), to the need for Iraq's accession to the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the activation of the Silk Road to serve the common interests and economic development in the region, while the confirmed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the importance of developing relations between Iraq and Kuwait in all fields, particularly economic, renewed the invitation of Kuwaiti companies to invest in Iraq.
The Gulf Cooperation Council Organization of Arab regional is composed of six Member States bordering the Persian Gulf is the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and was established in 1981, is also both Iraq and Yemen, Jordan and Morocco, countries candidates for membership of the Council full, where he owns both Iraq and Yemen membership Some of the committees of the Council such as sports, health and cultural rights.
The invitation Kuwait to Iraq's accession to the GCC, about eight days to visit the son of the Emir of Kuwait and the Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad to Sulaymaniyah in (April 19, 2012), which is revealed through the presence of orientation Kuwaiti partnership with Iraq within the system of regional countries of the northern Gulf , while pointing out that his country aims, through this system to diversify its economy so that it does not depend on the oil completely.
This is the orientation of Kuwait in partnership with Iraq's future system include the formation of the North Bay is the first of its kind since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime on the ninth of April 2003, and represents a reference to the existence of progress in the relations between the two countries.
Participated Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah in the work of the Arab summit conference in Baghdad (29 March 2012), described the visit as historic, being the first to the Emir of the State of Kuwait since the Iraqi occupation of the emirate Gulf in August 1990.
As a result of improved relations re-Kuwait flights to Iraq, as it landed at the airport in Najaf (April 17, 2012), the first Kuwaiti plane after 22 years on the last trip to Iraq, as confirmed Jazeera Airways that it will be two trips a week to the airport can be increased, as well as for flights to other airports in the rest of the country.
Saw the Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations in the recent progress in relation to solving some outstanding problems, as the parties agreed during the visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the last of Kuwait (14 March 2012) to end the issue of compensation for KAC and maintenance of border markers, as was agreed to foundations and frameworks to solve all common files, within the short time scales, with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who accompanied al-Maliki during his visit to what was agreed upon is significant progress with respect to the exit of Iraq from Chapter VII.
It is noteworthy that Iraq is under since 1990 under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations imposed after the invasion of the former regime of Saddam Hussein, the State of Kuwait in August of the same year, this item allows the use of force against Iraq as a threat to international security, in addition to large amounts of frozen financial assets in international banks to pay compensation to those affected by the invasion.
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